SnoopyStyle Benjamin Purvis (Michael Angarano) is a quiet awkward teen home-schooled by his mother (Jennifer Coolidge). He has written a sci-fi fantasy novella about Bronco (Sam Rockwell) based on his father. He's befriended by Tabatha Jenkins (Halley Feiffer) and Lonnie Donaho (Héctor Jiménez). Tabatha is the first person to read his book and she loves it. He goes to writing camp Cletus Fair where he meets his idol Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement). Ronald is rather pompous and needs a new book before his publisher drops him. Ronald steals Benjamin's book. Unbeknownst to Ronald, Lonnie buys the rights to Benjamin's book and makes an indie. Ronald claims that Benjamin is the thief.I like these characters to a certain extent. Weird characters have become a trademark of the Hesses but I always struggle to actually laugh in their movies. This one comes close. I like Angarano who gets better along the way. Tabatha's first scene isn't good because she's kind of callous and oblivious to Benjamin's feelings. Also the Bronco scenes could have tied in with Benjamin and his struggles more. It's a missed opportunity. If Sam Rockwell is suppose to be his father, there is no reason why Jennifer Coolidge could not be the heroine in those scenes. Jemaine Clement could play a villain of the book. The whole book could be a parallel world. I still like Benjamin but almost none of it made me laugh. Tabatha aggressively kissing him after he throws up is a fun scene. That comes closest to being funny.

willcundallreview Gentlemen Broncos is a quirky comedy that never truly makes an impact I think it wants to and although has a few OK jokes, is never truly funny either. The acting is kind of crazy but probably one of the funniest things about this are the characters so I can't complain too much about it all. The plot is fairly insane though and it is interesting but in the end it's supposed to be a comedy and well little or no funny jokes affect it. I felt in the end it was firmly a below average film.The story as mentioned is crazy and although it is entertaining there is something not good about all the quirkiness involved. In the end too much effort is put into it being this very strange teen comedy, the quirkiness to be fair though is hit and miss. As the plot goes along we start to see the craziness about the book involved and a lot of the funny jokes also derive from the reading of the novels seen in this film basically about writing.Michael Angarano is actually not that bad in this movie as Benjamin and his timid like performance is quite nicely done. Jermaine Clement is funny but part of me felt him in his role of Chevalier just didn't work so well and his "outsider" type role makes him seem confused always. The funniest character has to be Lonnie Donaho played by Hector Jimenez who is so random and a person actually turns out being funny at the end and his contribution is widely accepted here.Jared Hess directs and co writes the script and well although I don't want to criticise his skill as both, he doesn't really do a top notch grade piece of work here. If he has a hand in the set design then he really didn't do a great job as the film even looks crazy at times, Hess provides only a few jokes and it can sometimes seem he substitutes jokes for quirkiness. I think also his obvious vision for this to be a kind of indie film also affects it and it shouldn't have been done all that way.It isn't all bad at all and far from it in my opinion, it has a few jokes and although could be seen as juvenile and crude potty humour still is welcome among the lack of funny moments. I liked as said Angarano's role and if it weren't for the un comedic air around the movie, his performance would have been much more appreciated like that of Napoleon Dynamites main man Jon Heder.Staying on the topic of Napoleon Dynamite, if you like that movie then it could be said you may just find this a gem of a movie because of it's similar quirky feel but also by the same Jarod Hess who did Dynamite too. If your not a fan of potty humour or your a hardened critic of any comedy then you may not like this so much and to be fair may give this much worse a score than I have as sometimes when a character is being that crude, you may just feel it needs to never be shown again.Overall it is Firmly a Under Par film although as you can probably see from the review I didn't find it to be that terrible. I usually don't like to say that only teens will enjoy a certain film but part of me feels I have to admit that it may only be for teens with this one, it is just so teen orientated with it's quirky tones that by the end you feel only a 14 year old would find it hilarious.

Targe This is an alt very indie feel movie, with extreme silliness as it's major plot line.The movie pokes gentle fun at pulp sci fi authors and books, with lots of hilarious scenes having the actors depict characters in the main sci fi stories.The Space Harpie Vixen Women, with laser-shooting tits, are probably the best, and a close second would be the jet powered stuffed deer stag mounts.I say those things so you have an idea where this movie is going.If you read the above and said, "Oh well, Space Harpie Vixens with laser titties, well that's just SILLY! HARRUMMMPHHH!!!!" then this is not the movie for you.If, however, you find yourself wondering,"Space Vixen Harpie Women with laser breasts.... hmmmmm, intriguing, one wonders, how do these Space-Going Amazons possibly breast feed their gentle young?" Then THIS is the movie for you, for THEY ANSWER THAT in the movie.This is NOT a movie like Battlefield Earth. That movie was a total flying cowpie disaster engineered by a nutball LRon Hubbard. This movie is poking fun at itself, it does NOT take itself seriously, as B.E. did, being the holy secret of the Scientology religion and all I guess it had to... no this movie is poking fun of horrendously bad sci fi authors LIKE LRon Hubbard. The acting is so incredibly bad it is BRILLIANT and Oscar WORTHY. The sets are so impossibly poorly made THEY ARE INCREDULOUS. The special effects are so ineptly cringe-worthy THEY ARE STUPENDOUS.YOU MUST SEE THIS MOVIE. The fate of the Yeast Slaves Depends on it!

dfusco-217-829120 I can only think that the reviewers on this site have lost their sense of humour, are addicted to Hollywood pap, can only watch 'celebrity actors' who's lives are smeared over the pages of magazines in supermarket racks, are too up themselves and their conformist notions to actually watch and enjoy film, have forgotten the sense of wonder that the ordinary can have.... They need action, explosions, USA as the saviour of mankind (in various disguises), a dose of soft pornography inserted into every plot, men with enormous drug induced muscles, women with enormous plastic breasts, cute children, squealing squeaky clean teenagers, immaculate settings, and an escape from the real world. This had to be ten lines to say "this film will not be liked by the kind of person who would probably go to see 'Yeast Lords'starring Arnold.